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What Are Some Of Your Favorite Essays? (1/15/23)
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That is a great share, Vesna. I have never read this and just skimmed it to get a sense of the essay.
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I could access it on the NYRB but just in case it's paywalled, here's another link:
https://sites.evergreen.edu/political...
This book of essays was recommended by a young friend and I found them to be very enjoyable - Impossible Owls: Essays by Brian Phillips
I don't seek out essays to read, usually, but here are some I love:"The Taming of the Shrew" by Konrad Lorenz. I can't find it online but it's in the essay collection King Solomon's Ring: New Light on Animal Ways
"The Brown Wasps" by Loren Eiseley
https://members.tripod.com/nature_wri...
"Against Interpretation" by Susan Sontag
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"Stranger in the Village" by James Baldwin
https://www.janvaneyck.nl/site/assets...
Anything by my two favorite essay writers:Joan Didion and James Baldwin
And who can forget A Modest Proposal?
I went through a phase of reading essay collections. Some of my faves: The moronic inferno - Martin Amis
Junk Mail - will Self
Salman Rushdie - imaginary homelands
More recent:
Things are against us - Lucy Ellmann
Notes to self - emilie pine
Nothing is more real than nothing - Daniel James eat Al
I loved Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon for making me look at just how much we can get out of only a handful of words.My Review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... has a few direct quotes.
Tracy wrote: "Anything by my two favorite essay writers:Joan Didion and James Baldwin
And who can forget A Modest Proposal?"
Definitely Joan Didion.
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